Sometimes I like to add a touch of hazelnut to my coffee. Not often enough to buy a bag of hazelnut coffee though. I found that a few drops of Hobbyland’s hazelnut flavoring added a perfect amount of flavor without any sweetness. Sadly they’ve gone out of business and I can’t find a good replacement. Anyone have a good recommendation for an alternative?
Standard is 45ml at 14g of alcohol. I assume you’re saying that’s higher than average as most appear to be 10g ±2.
40% more is a lot, and e.g. German shots are even smaller (20ml, a shot of 40% spirit contains 6.3g of alcohol).
That’s interesting to consider.
Tangentially I just did the math the other day on me preferring barrel proof bourbon to the amount of alcohol per drink in grams and was shocked. Ended up drinking one more drink than I thought I was each time which adds up over time! I foolishly thought 40% to 50-60% was not that big of a difference. One American drink is close to 1.5 at higher proof. Should have mathed before I drank.
I thought barrel-proof was something like 60% ABV, so wouldn’t that mean that a shot of barrel-proof spirit is only 50% more than the more common 40% ABV spirits, rather than 100% more like you’re implying?
I’m not sure if bourbon has an exact definition of that percentage. It’s whatever comes out of the barrel. I’d have to check my bottles but it’s definitely on the 60% and up ones but I think I’ve seen it on the 50% and up ones as well.
Yeah pretty much:
The math I’m doing is I thought having a standard drink of 40% was close enough to 50-60% that I wouldn’t count is as more than one drink.
But my math shows that 45ml of 40% is 18 ml of alcohol or 14g is standard in the US. Then I recently did the math that 50 and 60 respectively is 22.5 and 27. Therefore having two drinks (which is the recommended maximum) of 60% is actually three drinks by US standards.
I guess my point is I thought I was drinking two drinks and some change, I didn’t realize an extra 10-20% was adding 25-50% more alcohol per drink. As someone who knows the dangers of drinking too much I don’t want to do that.
Honestly I don’t get how it rises so quickly with adding 10-20%, but my field isn’t math lol
Ah that makes sense.
I mean that’s pretty simple, 60% is 1.5 times 40%, and 76% is 2 times 38% (IDK the laws for this in the US for bourbon, but e.g. gin is often sold at 37.5% ABV here).
Thanks for explaining! Do you have naval strength gin?
You can buy higher strength gin in online shops, and most supermarkets will at least have the 43% Tanqueray. It’s mostly the cheaper ones like Gordon’s or Bombay Dry Gin that get sold at legal minimum strength.